--- abstract: 'In this paper I use thought-experiments to argue that functional organization fully determines conscious experience. These thought-experiments involve the gradual replacement of neurons by silicon chips, and similar scenarios. I argue that if "absent qualia" or "inverted qualia", are possible, then phenomena I call "fading qualia" and "dancing qualia" will be possible; but I argue that it is very implausible that fading or dancing qualia are possible. The resulting position is a sort of nonreductive functionalism.' altloc: - http://ling.ucsc.edu/~chalmers/papers/qualia.html chapter: 15 commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Chalmers given: David J. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1995 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-06-15 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/03/18 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Metzinger given: Thomas honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 318 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/318/1/qualia.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'consciousness, qualia, experience, artificial intelligence, robots, functionalism' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:48 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 309-328 pubdom: FALSE publication: Conscious Experience publisher: Schoningh/Imprint Academic. refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:26:34 subjects: - phil-mind succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Absent Qualia, Fading Qualia, Dancing Qualia' type: bookchapter userid: 219 volume: ~